We kindof do. Have a way of knowing that particular thing. The part of the brain that deals with recognizing faces in the visual field is pretty well identified. Face blindness happens when that part of your brain is damaged.
If there's damage before or after that spot in the path between light coming in your eyes and your mouth saying "I see a face" then other functions will also be impaired. The fact that we can't recover from that particular kind of damage is notable, too. We can't use our general-purpose object identification hardware to identify faces. That could say all kinds of things. I don't know about face-blindness and it's characteristics to tell you exactly what it says, but it certainly doesn't prove that face recognition is hard.
OO databases are myriad and variegated. Yes, there are many that you could trust in production. Of course, if your current problem is convincing your boss that any non-MS-SQL solution is viable, then no, no there is not one that you can trust in production.
If your current problem is that you have important data analysis that cannot be completed with your current Oracle/whatever relational DB due to an algorithm that could lower it's order a few exponents with an OO design, then yeah. There are all kinds of production solutions for you.
Still, some people, affected by face blindness, cannot recognize one face from another one. So it's understandable that face recognition is a major challenge for computer vision systems.
Face blindness just shows us that the specialized hardware we have for face recognition is so incredibly accurate that we rely on it completely and have no alternate methods of face recognition. When it's broken, other parts of our brain don't step in either because a) it's a hard task or b) they just don't have access to the relevant visual information. Face recognition could be totally simple, if this were our only measure.
Well. Slashdot wasn't here when Clippy was invented. Clippy is *old*.
I didn't intend to make the point that Clippy is bad or widely hated. I took it on assumption from the story, and was only trying to point out why the haters hate it. I know plenty of people that like Clippy too.
A more on-point contradiction might be that those folks who like Clippy probably wouldn't like something less playfull, like Stephenson's Librarian.
Ah, let me revise that. People who think they *are* animals bug me due to their furriness. Same with people who think they *are* dragons, or some Ranma character, though...
Furries are frowned upon because of the kind of people that tend to be attracted to it, not because of the fact that they imagine that they do or should have animal qualities. From www.zoofur.com:
I enjoy Disco, Country and Western music,along with Classical. I collect furry art, both from the web and via mail. I have written a few furry stories, they are on the stories page. I love the Bear deeply and would love to have on as a companion. This may never happen, but who knows what the future holds.
Yeah. Who knows.
Obviously not all furries are this kind of idiot, but they are just about all some kind of idiot. The fact that they have a thing for animals is usually orthogonal to whatever reason I think they're an idiot.
People didn't react badly to the anthropomorphizing, they reacted badly to the patronizing tone. Nobody would complain if they started Office 2K5 and were greated by The Librarian.
The person asking the question puts up a bounty, and if they accept the researcher's answer, then the researcher gets the bounty.
In the case of the 100 phone call restaurant search, the bounty was $10. I imagine he wouldn't have gone to such lengths if he wasn't also interested in the answer.
I've never heard that anyone worked as a Google Researcher for a living. Didn't occur to me that you could make a living wage at it.
Yes. The configuration is difficult to deal with, but it certainly ships on every OS X machine.
The long story is that you have to go to the "System Preferences" application, click on the "Sharing" panel, and check the box marked "Personal Web Sharing".
I realize that had a lot of "tech" "jargon", but that's how you configure Apache on Mac OS X.
Especially since it kindof *is* proven legally: No one has challenged it successfully. That's very indicative, given the value of all the copylefted software out there.
By the time Longhorn comes out I would imagine that it is a pretty normal requirment. 2 years from now is a long time in the PC world. Keep in mind that the average home users is close to (if not above) 3.0 HT procs today....
Your respondents completely miss the point, even if you misspoke. They're not talking about the average computer, they're talking about the average computer that will run Longhorn.
Right now, the average home user is probably close to a 500 mHz Celeron. The average new XP machine might within shouting distance of a 3.0 GHz P4, sure.
Thus Microsoft's estimate of the average Longhorn machine sounds plausible.
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We kindof do. Have a way of knowing that particular thing. The part of the brain that deals with recognizing faces in the visual field is pretty well identified. Face blindness happens when that part of your brain is damaged.
If there's damage before or after that spot in the path between light coming in your eyes and your mouth saying "I see a face" then other functions will also be impaired. The fact that we can't recover from that particular kind of damage is notable, too. We can't use our general-purpose object identification hardware to identify faces. That could say all kinds of things. I don't know about face-blindness and it's characteristics to tell you exactly what it says, but it certainly doesn't prove that face recognition is hard.
OO databases are myriad and variegated. Yes, there are many that you could trust in production. Of course, if your current problem is convincing your boss that any non-MS-SQL solution is viable, then no, no there is not one that you can trust in production.
If your current problem is that you have important data analysis that cannot be completed with your current Oracle/whatever relational DB due to an algorithm that could lower it's order a few exponents with an OO design, then yeah. There are all kinds of production solutions for you.
Still, some people, affected by face blindness, cannot recognize one face from another one. So it's understandable that face recognition is a major challenge for computer vision systems.
Face blindness just shows us that the specialized hardware we have for face recognition is so incredibly accurate that we rely on it completely and have no alternate methods of face recognition. When it's broken, other parts of our brain don't step in either because a) it's a hard task or b) they just don't have access to the relevant visual information. Face recognition could be totally simple, if this were our only measure.
It was a minor geek news item when they first started uniquely identifying Office installations in every document they create.
I knew about it before the Melissa guy got caught, and my first thought was "who didn't know about that?"
Step 1.5: Compile your virus/worm with something that doesn't uniquely identify your computer, like Visual Studio.
But, again, the thing that makes me hate the jackass isn't that some dog buggers him. It's the dippy spiritual bullshit that always accompanies it.
You know. Things like "Yes, I was born in a human body, but my soul is that of The Wolf."
Well. Slashdot wasn't here when Clippy was invented. Clippy is *old*.
I didn't intend to make the point that Clippy is bad or widely hated. I took it on assumption from the story, and was only trying to point out why the haters hate it. I know plenty of people that like Clippy too.
A more on-point contradiction might be that those folks who like Clippy probably wouldn't like something less playfull, like Stephenson's Librarian.
Ah, let me revise that. People who think they *are* animals bug me due to their furriness. Same with people who think they *are* dragons, or some Ranma character, though...
Well, every furry that's been vocal enough for me to run into has annoyed me in some other way. I really don't think it's the furriness that bugs me.
Ghostscript displays PDFs, doesn't it?
Ack, Jesus. I don't want anyone mistaking me for a Terry Pratchett fan! I'm talking about Stephenson! Snow Crash!
Obviously not all furries are this kind of idiot, but they are just about all some kind of idiot. The fact that they have a thing for animals is usually orthogonal to whatever reason I think they're an idiot.
Yeah, I guarantee you that I was talking about Neal Stephenson's Librarian, from Snow Crash.
People didn't react badly to the anthropomorphizing, they reacted badly to the patronizing tone. Nobody would complain if they started Office 2K5 and were greated by The Librarian.
And they make no mention of any version of Win9x whatsoever.
The person asking the question puts up a bounty, and if they accept the researcher's answer, then the researcher gets the bounty.
In the case of the 100 phone call restaurant search, the bounty was $10. I imagine he wouldn't have gone to such lengths if he wasn't also interested in the answer.
I've never heard that anyone worked as a Google Researcher for a living. Didn't occur to me that you could make a living wage at it.
Hehe. You seem to have misunderstood. I was joking about how hilariously easy it is to configure Apache on Mac OS X.
To be fair, it's about as easy as configuring IIS on XP or Apache on Linux.
Wait. Unless you were joking too, in which case I didn't get it...
DO they ship apache with every copy of mac os x?
Yes. The configuration is difficult to deal with, but it certainly ships on every OS X machine.
The long story is that you have to go to the "System Preferences" application, click on the "Sharing" panel, and check the box marked "Personal Web Sharing".
I realize that had a lot of "tech" "jargon", but that's how you configure Apache on Mac OS X.
IBM got out of HW, look where they are.
Oh, Jesus. Don't tell anyone at IBM that they "got out of HW."
Insightful like a brick.
Woah. That's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. (For starters: Everyone can "decrypt" MSIL code.)
Especially since it kindof *is* proven legally: No one has challenged it successfully. That's very indicative, given the value of all the copylefted software out there.
Hey, whether I'm a real programmer or not is easily confirmed by my coworkers. They say I learned VB 6 in record time .
P.S. I *asked* whether that was something "real" programmers would do. I guarantee you, I'm not a "real" programmer.
I think I've only ever met one or two. And they didn't write SQL queries. For cash. On the street. Eating government cheese.
Right now, the average home user is probably close to a 500 mHz Celeron. The average new XP machine might within shouting distance of a 3.0 GHz P4, sure.
Thus Microsoft's estimate of the average Longhorn machine sounds plausible.